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THE LITTLE MERMAID
ACT I
Fathoms Below
PILOT
I'll tell you a tale of the bottomless blue

SAILORS
An' it's hey to the starboard, heave ho!
Brave sailor, beware, 'cause a big 'uns a-brewin'

SAILORS
Mysterious fathoms below!
Heave ho!

PILOT
I'll sing you a song of the king of the sea

PILOT & SAILORS
An' it's hey to the starboard, heave ho!

PILOT
The ruler of all of theoceans is he

SAILORS
In mysterious fathoms below!
Fathoms below, below!
From whence wayward westerlies blow!
Where Triton is king
And his merpeople sing
In mysterious fathoms below!

PRINCE ERIC
Isn't this perfection, Grimsby? Out on the open sea, surrounded by nothing but water

GRIMSBY
Oh, yes, it’s simply...delightful...

PRINCE ERIC
The salt on your skin
And the wind inyour hair
And the waves as they ebb and they flow!
We’re miles from the shore
And guess what – I don’t care!

GRIMSBY
As for me, I’m about to heave ho!

PILOT
Back to work!

SAILORS
I’ll sing you a song of the king of the sea
An’ it’s hey to the starboard, heave ho!
The ruler of all of the oceans is he
In mysterious fathoms below!

GRIMSBY
King of the sea? Why, that’s nauticalnonsense – nothing but a superstition!

PILOT
The king of the ocean gets angry
An’ when he gets angry, beware!
I’m tellin’ ya, lad, when King Triton is mad
How the waves’ll buck, rock to and fro!

PILOT & SAILORS
Hold on, good luck, as down you go!

PRINCE ERIC
What is that? Do you hear something?

GRIMSBY
Milord, please. Enough sea-faring! You’ve got to get back to court –
tohonor your father’s dying wish and
take up his crown!

PRINCE ERIC
That’s not the life for me, Grimsby—
There it is again!

PILOT
We ought to head back to shore, your majesty.

GRIMSBY
Indeed, we should!

PRINCE ERIC
Not while I’m captain. Now follow that voice! To the ends of the earth if we have to!

PILOT
Aye-aye, Captain!

PILOT & SAILORS
There’s mermaids out there inthe bottomless blue
An’ it’s hey to the starboard, heave ho!
Watch out for ‘em, lad, or you’ll go to your ruin
Mysterious fathoms below!
Daughters of Triton
MERSISTERS
Ah, we are the daughters of Triton
Great father who loves us
And named us well
Aquata
Andrina
Arista
Atina
Adella
Alanna
And Ariel

In concert we hope to enlighten
The heart of the merfolk
With music's swellAquata!

AQUATA
Ahhh

MERSISTERS
Andrina!

ANDRINA
Ahhh

MERSISTERS
Arista!

ARISTA
Ahhh

MERSISTER
Atina!

ATINA
Ahhh

MERSISTERS
Adella

ADELLA
Ahhh

MERSISTERS
ALANNA

ALANNA
Ahhh

And then there is the youngest
In her musical debut
Our seventh little sister
We’re presenting her to you
To sing a song Sebastian wrote
Her voice is like a bell
It’s oursister
Ariel!

SEBASTIAN
(spoken)
Oh, no. Where is she? Once more…

MERSISTERS
Sister, Ariel!
The World Above
ARIEL
This is where I belong
Beneath the clear wide blue here!
I feel completely new here in the world above!
It’s like my life was wrong
And somehow, now, at last I’m in
My own skin
Up here in the world above!

There’s so much light here
Light and space!
The sun’s sobright here
Upon my face!
It feels so right here
Warm as love...
Life seems to be
Almost calling to me
From this strange new world above!

Human stuff
SCUTTLE
Wow – this is special… this is very, very unusual.

ARIEL
What? What is it?

SCUTTLE
It’s a dinglehopper!

ARIEL
A dinglehopper?

SCUTTLE
Oh, these babies are fantabulous. Absolutely indispensary.
When it comes todinglehoppers, I’m a regular encyclopoodia!

Say thatcha wanna have a hairdo
Like the folks who live up there do
That’ll flap their wigs!

GULL 1
Flop their wigs!

GULL 2
Flap!

GULL 3
Awwwk!

SCUTTLE
Well, you’ll look absolutely dandy
If you use one of these handy
Little thingmajigs!

GULL 1
Thingmabobs.

GULL 2
Jigs!

GULL 1
Bobs!

GULL 3
Awwwk!

SCUTTLE
Pick up the...